Discover how the turtle's shell defence evolved, revealing bizarre turtle anatomy and the unique position of shoulder blades. The turtle's shell provides it with a formidable defence and one that is ...

The long-standing mystery of how the turtle got its shell may have been solved by a Japanese study. The paper, published today in the journal Science, shows the outer shell of turtles develop from the ...

The way the body wall of the growing embryo folds inwards helps to explain how the reptiles achieve their unique body shape. The origin of the turtle’s body plan has been a mystery. Unlike most ...